Stuff White People Like

This is a joke, right?

Why would you think that?

so, are you white or what? btw, my Prius is white.

Haaa ha ha. This post quotes almost word for word why my white friend was so incredibly psyched when he bought his Prius. This blog is freaking hilarious.

LOL

fucking hilarious and so true

Ha ha ha….I love your blog!

not to nitpick, but..
EPA 60 mpg / 51 mpg

Actually, I bought a Prius to get that sexy touch screen. It’s the ultimate nerd car.

Daggone, that’s so totally white.

Anyhow, I don’t want to save the environment. The environment can go screw itself as far as I’m concerned. I just want everything to have a sexy touch screen.

Ahahahahaha!

I hate Priuses. They’re almost universally driven by people who *should not drive*. They try to kill me regularly as I ride to work on my polluting, socially irresponsible motorcycle.

Maybe they’re swerving because they’re trying to fiddle with their touchscreens… Or maybe they just traded in their fixie and haven’t driven in five years. *shrug*

not to nitpick, but..
EPA 60 mpg / 51 mpg

Wow, dp, you are super white. Nice!

I gotta say…you’re really confusing white people with white liberals lately.

White conservatives hate Prii, and don’t tend to recycle, or care about poor people, or use natural medicine.

I also hate the Prius. I despise everything it stands for. Yeah, ok, you keep on driving your little one-notch-above-toy car and feeling “green, I’ll be over here doing burnouts in my Thunderbird and not kidding myself.

And hey, Saabs were not the official white people car of the 80s. They only sould between 30k and 50k cars each year that decade. Also, I never see white people driving old Saabs, unless they’re my age and obviously got the car from their parents. I WISH they were the official white people car of the 80s, then maybe I could find a decent one I can afford.

Though, we do all love irony, you certainly hit that one on the head.

I am a whitepeople wannabe (white but poor). I get my status thrills by driving a 1993 Geo Metro that makes better mileage (47mpg) than a Prius.

I love it because it lets me sneer at Prius owners who pay $30K to get worse mileage thereby gaining status points for my poor white trash car as I try to put them down.

My wife says I am crazy. She says the point isn’t getting good mileage, the point is to make sure everyone knows you have $30K to p!ss away on a Prius.

Actually, at least in the UK, the reason people buy the Prius is because it isn’t horribly underpowered and you save on income tax and the London congestion charge..

If they say it’s about the environment, they’re lying.

These cars get stolen fairly often in Overtown down in Miami, maybe it’s all the hipster bars in the area that attract all these young urban white youth, then the crackheads mouths begin to water. Don’t drive these things near Martin Luther King Jr Drive ANYWHERE in America!

I saw some white dope driving one of these with a “4UEARTH” plate. Prius drivers confuse doing less damage with doing benefit. It’s like switching from beating your kid with a regular hammer to beating him with a rubber hammer and then thinking you’re doing the kid a helpful service. All you’re doing is slightly decreasing the massive and unnecessary damage you’re doing; this is not a meritorious behavior; you don’t deserve a pat on the back.

I hafta admit, I’m not really whiter than thou. I bought mine because I mistook the name for Priapus. My manhood took a nosedive, but I find I’m really hip at Sarah McLachlan concerts.

Secretly, white people wish they could build such a fine vehicle, and hate that only yellow people have been able to swing it. C’mon, white people and black people and red people and… what other colors are there…? Let’s get our collective shit together!

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The Prius, like other hybrids, are patriotic cars because they allow us to move one step closer away from dirty, foreign, insecure oil to the cleaner, domestic, more secure electrical grid.

I have a Prius, and am pleased with the high mileage and low emissions. I’m even more pleased that Toyota is planning on offering a second NiMH pack & plug on the 2009 version (currently being tested in California & Japan) that will allow for an all electric drive of 7 miles after an overnight charge (@ approx 70mpg).

I’ll be even more excited when GM comes out with the Volt, and Toyota comes out with the Prius III with a Li-Ion pack that allows for EV range from 20-40 miles. I just hope it is not too expensive.

Prius drivers hate foreign oil and wonder why non-Prius drivers hate Prius drivers more than foreign oil. Yeah, we can be smug. But hey, we don’t slam airplanes into buildings.

I doubt that there is much “earth-saving” involved in owning a Prius. Yes, the mileage is very good in heavy traffic (the gasoline motor switches off for several miles at a time and it runs on the battery), which is good for my daily commute from eastern Long Island to the Bronx, but the manufacturing of the car , esp. the heavy battery (which may have to be replaced at around 100K miles, just when your $17,000 Hyundai or Corrolla is getting broken in) involves a lot of complicated and precision-built components not needed in your ordinary four-banger. It takes energy to do this.
The real reason I bought one? The car is considered an energy-saver, so I , along with a lot of other White People, get to use the High Occupancy Vehicle lane on the Long Island Expressway. Every day, I pass miles of stopped traffic…I see the grim faces of these drivers, late for work, and like Bill Clinton, I smile and wave to them to show that I feel their pain. They do not wave back.

To the non-Prius people, the Prius drivers are saying “look at me, I’m so socially and environmentally conscious!” It’s the pretentiousness of it. Like my coworker who wants to buy a Hybrid. No one asks him this, he volunteers this info so people will know he cares sooo much about trees and birdies.

Marc,
Anytime someone uses the term “Patriotic” to describe a person, place or thing…..BAM! You know they’re 190% White! You sir, are almost translucent.

Sincerely,
The Duke of White People

Jeff:
I am a white conservative, and I do not hate the Prius at all (although I have some misgivings, see my post above). And yes, I do wish that Ford or GM could have invented or licensed this technology. It might not be the wave of the future, but it is definitely the wave of the present. I am really tired of the way GM is letting Toyota and Honda eat its lunch every year.

Sosueme:
A Prius is not priced anywhere near $30,000. I paid $22,000 for mine last March. This came with a back-up camera (surprisingly handy) and lots of little electronic gizmos that I have not figured out how to use yet.

I love how Prius owners think their car is so environmentally friendly. This is a vehicle whose batteries are made in a factory in Canada that spews so much pollution environmentalists call it The Dead Zone. Then those batteries are shipped to Japan for assembly in the vehicles, and then the vehicles are shipped here. Real savers of the earth, Prius drivers.

But hey, have fun driving in your EPA revised-down-to-45 mpg car–my Ford Escort gets nearly as good gas mileage, I spent about $10,000-15,000 less, and I don’t need a camera to help me back out of a parking space.

Now $22,000 is expensive for a new car? Why don’t you climb up out of your little nest of tired talk-radio stereotypes and check out the Kelley Blue Book web site? A Prius costs $2,500 less than a new Hyundai Alera, $4,000 less than the cheapest V8 Mustang. A new Cadillac CTS is $33,000; so is the base model of the Ford Expedition. A BMW 335 is about $40,000; a new Corvette or the low-end Mercedes E-class costs about $50,000.

I will never for the life of me understand the hostility this innocent little car arouses among so many Americans. You cranks can’t all be secretly on King Abdullah’s payroll, can you? If you don’t like the Prius, there are hundreds of other models to choose from.

im white and i drive the blackist Mercedes-Benz going…i love to know im killing the world every time i fill its huge gas guzzling tank….ps fuck relycling….we goin out big people

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Hybrids are garbage.

Why not bring turbodiesels to the states? A Civic turbodiesel hatchback gets 50mpg and get this, it has TORQUE!

Can’t say the same for the Prius.

Too bad idiots in this administration can’t get the EPA to loosen up the diesel regulations.

Give me a BMW 335d that gets 45mpg anyday of the week over a Prius.

I beleive a list of “Stuff That Negroes Dig, Besides Fried Chicken and White Women” may be in order here. What do you say?? Coming soon.

based on a quick auto trader search one can buy a prius for $29,422-$7,950…and looking at toyotas website one can find a brand new one starting at $21,100 (MSRP). This doesn’t seem unreasonable for a car. I admit that I have never seen anyone but a white person driving one, even in the most liberal of states like Washington and California where just about every 3rd car is a prius.

The better question might be why are only white people driving them?

Sheeple Herder
I beleive a list of “Stuff That Negroes Dig, Besides Fried Chicken and White Women” may be in order here. What do you say?? Coming soon

C’mon everybody loves fried chicken and hot sauce.. As for white women, well when the lights are out and bones are smacking I dont think color is the main factor of things…

#15 redgreen
I saw some white dope driving one of these with a “4UEARTH” plate. Prius drivers confuse doing less damage with doing benefit. It’s like switching from beating your kid with a regular hammer to beating him with a rubber hammer and then thinking you’re doing the kid a helpful service. All you’re doing is slightly decreasing the massive and unnecessary damage you’re doing; this is not a meritorious behavior; you don’t deserve a pat on the back.

THIS IS MY FAVORITE COMMENT SO FAR! I cannot stop laughing and I wish the bolded part could be on a billboard!

Are there any M1A1’s available at surplus yet, and if so can they be made street legal? Scratch the last question – irrelevant for my purposes.

Plan: M1A1 + lot full of Piuses = Guiness book of records entry titled “Largest piece of tinfoil.”

You guys and your ridiculous Prius hate. I don’t hang out at Prius parties or pat myself on the back for “healing” the envrionment. (and if you want to get all pissy about the “my car benefits the environment movement, look no further than that retarded Honda ad where the Civic goes by and the flowers bloom. Gag.)

I knew I was going to have to drive a car to work, and so I bought the car that would be the coolest, while reducing the amount of damage I’d be doing. It also came with a pretty damn sweet federal tax credit, and it pays off double when I have to do work related travel and get reimbursed for my mileage.

So don’t hate, the car’s pretty sweet. So some of the people who drive them aren’t. Same with the people who drive Mercedes, BMWs, and big-ass trucks. At least the asshole Prius drivers have the added upside of not damaging the environment while they’re bring smug jerks, as opposed to the other kinds.

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the barack obama point was gold. excellent work.

Andre 3000 and Mos Def are interchangable, and don’t forget the little dogs you can carry in a handbag.

The Prius is not environmentally friendly. At least the production is not. A few others posted the same thing on here I noticed. Where you may have a cheaper vehicle that gets better gas mileage, it does more harm to the environment when mining for the metals used in the battery. And when the car has reached its last mile, where does that battery then go? What happens when the battery needs to be disposed of? More hazardous waste. Shipping the metals oversees, again, is a waste of energy. You get the point. The new GMC Yukon, I believe, is a hybrid vehicle, and is a better choice over the Prius (I wish I had the link to the article) for the aforementioned reasons. If you want something fuel efficient for now, get a smaller vehicle period.

As for it being a car a “white” person would own, I’m not too sure

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It’s obvious you are one of those people who try to be funny, but fail.

This piece is great, and this website is hilarius. White liberals have no sense of humor though, so I am surprised that there haven’t been any unnecessary, pointlessly negative comments except Trish’s.

45 miles per gallon. OMG (shivers) . In the SF bay gas is not cheap. Many White people actually walk to things not just for exercise but to save gas (we say it’s for the environment).
How much is one of these cars? haha someone actually used the word hate about a CAR. Gawd.

I would never put an Apple sticker on my Prius.

I would never put a Toyota sticker on my MacBook Pro.

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Two things to say about this blog most of you will no what im reffering too.

1. Watermelon

2.KFC

nuff said

My comment would have fit better under the expensive sandwhich one tho.

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[...] Stuff White People Like is a fantastic blog that pokes fun at the social and consumption habits of affluent, white yuppies and hipsters. Over the years, white people have gone through a number of official cars. In the 1980s it was the Saab and the Volvo. By the 1990s it was the Volkswagen Jetta or a Subaru 4WD station wagon. But these days, there is only one car for white people. One car that defines all that they love: the Toyota Prius. [...]

This stuff really is an extra groove!

Wait ’til they get the bill for their replacement batteries! Then we’ll probably see a different color, I’m gonna bet.

Cheero!

that car is an eyesore.

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stuffblackpeoplelike – eating watermelon! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – pumping oil! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – gang warfare! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – eating beans! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – shooting heroin! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – welfare! hahaha!!!
stuffjewishpeoplelike – keeping money! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – eating rice! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – kissing goats! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – sniffing glue! hahaha!!!
aren’t i funny and clever!!!
don’t you dare call me a racist!!!

He has a point. Chinese people do eat rice.

i loath the prius! does this mean i’m not really white?

The batteries in a Prius are what make it expensive. Know why things are expensive? Because they use a lot of energy and resources.

So, to offset that money, and the resources and energy it represents, you have to save enough gas to pay for those batteries. That should only take you 150,000 miles or so.

You know what? All the oil in the ground is going to get burned, as fast as it can be pumped out. There’s a little country called China that doesn’t give a rat’s ass not only about oil depletion but about clean air either. I bet the environment is better off with Americans buying the gasoline up and burning it through a good catalytic converter than the alternative that it’ll get burned in China.

Alternative energy/technology makes sense in only one situation: when it makes economic sense. Again, money represents energy and resources. If you paid more to do the same thing, you probably used more energy and resources to do it. That even applies to riding a bike (if there were no fitness benefit): it takes so much energy to produce human food, that it uses less resources for you to drive an efficient car than ride a bike.

Of course, crap like this is about making white people feel good about themselves, it’s about having something to be pious and sanctomonious about if you are a bunch of high-c*nted evolutionary-dead-end puritanical Massholes, and you decide Jebus doesn’t exist anymore so you have to latch onto something else just as stupid like self-flagellation over fake global warming crap or being all pious about fossil fuel use when you’re just making it cheaper for billions of brown people scrambling for a modern life on the other side of the world. It adds up to nothing. Do me a favor: go to church. It’s retarded but at least those retards don’t try to tax me.

What happens if you buy a Prius but just walk everywhere?

80s NIGHT! LOL! I LOOOOOVE YOU!

it’s funny ’cause it’s true

BWAHAHAHAHA! I must tell my (white, Prius-owning) dad about this site! Love. It.

Max

I’m white and I drive a ford escort. A white one. Wanna hang out with me?

I will take it upon myself to properly interpret every item on this blog which has been intentially written derisively so as to provide humor at the expense of white people (and does a damn good job at it) however nothing is more white then using analytical thinking and logical deduction to counter incorrect assumptions while arguing just for the sake of arguing!

hence:

any “white” infatuation with the prius (or any other automobile of this type) stems from the almost uniquely white habit of understanding the need for conservation of scarce resources, a habit developed and selected for amongst whites living through many generations in cold climates.

virtually nowhere else among any other peoples on the planet is such care given to the environment ESPECIALLY because the tremendous rate of development of white societies caused initial heavy damage to local environments and that awareness is a healthy recognition that careful changes are necessary to avoid ecological catastrophe.

this is not to say that this particular strategy will best deal with future ecological problems, but rather it is a sign that the awareness is there.

As with the choices of the volvo and saab, cars that were believed (true or not) to be ’safe’ and of high quality, shows that at a time when highway fatalities were at all time highs the prudent and rational choice was a selection of “safety”.

choices such as the prius or volvo show that the white desire for cars that provided positive group benefits along with personal satisfaction should be lauded and encouraged.

these automobile choices stand in stark contrast to the choices that other peoples make (at least sterotypically) as for example blacks and cadillacs, or hispanics and low riders.

far from being considered a derisive group trait the smart automobile choices as lampooned above should be cheered.

Hm, I don’t give a shit about the environment most of the time, but more gas-mileage: less gas needing to be bought: the more driving I can do before hitting my gas budget for that pay period.

And I love driving, so the answer here is obvious. Of course, I drive an ooold Audi so my mileage isn’t too good to begin with.

So tell me if it is ok to drive a bunch of white Sierra club members to an Obama rally in a Prius? We will use our i-pods with a playlist consisting of totally 80’s music. Nah, we will just use Sirius Satellite radio that comes with the new versions because there is an 80’s channel.

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The Prius does not sound as cool as a 66 Impala with a blown big block and 2.5″ pipes.

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Don’t forget the TerraPass sticker on the back.

My guilt was totally overwhelming me, since I drive a Volvo for safety reasons (decision made while in the ICU after an accident), so I got a TerraPass. Ah, problem fixed!!

Do 2.5″ headers and a double-pump Holley on the Chevy big block in my Prius still make me white?

You might be a redneck if you haven’t replaced your air filter in your Prius for, like, 100,000 miles and your mpg has dipped to an all-time low of 49 mpg.

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A couple years ago I was fulfilling my white duty and went to a screening of an Al Franken movie at the local renovated art house theater. They must have given a free ticket to anyone who owned a Prius because I have never seen so many lined up in one place. You could spot the poorer white people who were still rockin’ the Jetta.

I love this site for bursting the bubble that too many white people live in.

Too True.

but my prius is.

So are you white or not? You’ve got to be kidding with your blogs?! Are you one of those white people that thinks by bashing your race, you are somewhat redeemed and cool? This sucks dude. get your research right….

Sweet mother of god this blog is AWESOME. I’ve yet to see a Prius without an Apple/Democrat/Hippy Bumper sticker on it. I’ve also never failed to see one pull in to anything other than a 3,000 square foot house. Comical.

OMG. You MUST live in the Bay Area. This is SO, SO true. LOL

really, this website should be called “Stuff liberal white people like…”

450 HP > 45 MPG

Site should be, “stuff white yuppie liberals like.

I drive a gas-guzzling SUV, cause the sooner we run out of oil, the sooner we’ll be forced to come up with a new fuel.

SUVs and minivans are much more typical of white people. Most of the Prius owners I know are Asian (although some are white).

Obama rallies? According to exit polls in primaries so far, 62% of Obama voters are white, compared to 69% for Clinton, 92% for McCain, and 97% for Huckabee. This seems to be the opposite of what white people like.

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This blog would probably be more accurate if it was called “What Most Indie Kids/Hipsters of All Races Like”

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180,000 miles ago when I bought my diesel pickup, I felt white, redneck (I live in SC for heaven’s sake), and proud of power. Now, still needing the power, I’m sick of middle east US deaths. Still a Republican, though now disaffected, I spend evenings converting WVO (waste vegetable oil from restaurants) into biodiesel. Less pollution, no petroleum.
Truck and I run great together… that bump I felt yesterday may have been a speed bump or a Prius.
My next small car for the kids. Diesel Accord (2010). Home brewed fuel doesn’t make me more or less white, redneck, or southern. If big oil, big auto industry, and big government is too slow or stupid to change, individuals can still make a small difference. Next project… how to solar power my home.

The Prius blows and it has nothing to do with whiteness. It drives like a golf cart. And old ladies like golf-carts. (Don’t ask me why, but I used my research grant money to study this attraction.) So, whatever fantasies about white people you’ve got here, this one’s wrong.

Why not take mass transportation? It’s less expensive than a Pruis, you are helping the environment and your community, and you develop friendships with other commuters. Support better transportation in los angeles.

Hey, I drive a Volvo — so does that mean I stopped being white 20 years ago?

I’ve owned a Volvo station wagon, a $3,000 racing bike, and I now drive a Prius. Wait, I also used to manage an alt. band in Athens. Yeah, try and out-whitey me!!!
Obama 4 Prez!

There’s really nothing to read here. Move along…

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Heh white folks, Here’s an interesting article re the environmental damage caused by Prius:

http://clubs.ccsu.edu/Recorder/editorial/editorial_item.asp?NewsID=188

Response to #96:

It looks like some folks just didn’t get the memo. As you may already know, a popular television program called “Boston Legal” last night broadcast an episode that contained a speech by one of the actors that repeated a curious and incorrect piece of – well, folklore.

This piece of folklore purports, quite incredibly, that a Hummer H2 is more “environmentally friendly” than a Prius. This curious hypothesis first made the rounds last year in a 458-page tome titled “Dust-to-Dust: The Energy Costs of New Vehicles from Concept to Disposal,” published by CNW Marketing Research.

As thoughtful researchers have pointed out, it was wrong. It’s still wrong now. Its inclusion in the script of a television show doesn’t change that – no matter how deep the conviction with which the actor delivered the lines containing this fairy tale.

Irv Miller posted a response to the CNW report on June 7. Click on the link to see it complete with reader comments – or you can just read on here to read the memo that the folks at “Boston Legal” apparently didn’t get. Mind you, we can’t blame the show’s writers for finding this a fascinating story angle. But it’s fiction. Just to set the record straight, to provide facts instead of fiction, here it is again.

~Jon F. Thompson, Corporate Communications

We reported earlier this week that our Prius hybrid vehicle contributed significantly to our strong sales results for May with a record 24,009 Prius sold across the U.S.

Which had us wondering about all of the potential energy savings that might have resulted had our competitor to the east of us sold 24,009 Hummers instead.

Continue reading “IRV’S SHEET: Fact Vs. Folklore” »

The entire story can be found at TOYOTA’s OPEN ROADS BLOG, Irv’s Sheet

Haha standing still at concerts. That’s so funny. I’m black myself and I like that white music, but I never understood standing still at concerts. The whole purpose of me going is to have a good time, why pay $39.50 for a concert ticket to go and stand still??? That’s no way to rock out.

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I love my Prius, but I sure got laid more when I had a Mustang GT

Love the end the most!

Not all white people love this car. When visiting relatives in Texas, Prius were practically non-existant.

I don’t think I am saving the planet by driving a Prius. I have to drive something. When everyone else gives up their cars, I’ll think about doing the same. Would you prefer if I drove some fucking huge SUV instead?

The cost of a Prius is not much more than the equivalent non-hybrid from Toyata. The state and federal government give tax credits as well.

I’m getting about 43 MPG, which is double the actual MPG of my last car. The Prius isn’t a compact economy box car, it is a fairly roomy 4 door hatch back. Don’t compare it to some midget euro car that gets 75 MPG.

Comparisons to diesel are pointless. There isn’t enough used cooking oil to power all the cars in the US. Anyway companies could make diesel hybrids, giving the benefits of both technologies.

The hatch cargo area is great, especially since the back seats fold down. I don’t care if you think it looks ugly. I loved my old Honda CRX too.

The battery is under warranty for 7 years and 100,000 miles. I’m not too worried about the replacement cost, considering my last car started having engine problems at that stage.

The issue of the alleged environmental devastation caused by making the batteries is bullshit, a previous poster linked to the article that debunks that.

I bought a Prius the day a gal of regular passed $3 in Houston. My neighbors are pissed, we are the only folk on the block not in oil and/or gas in some fashion. I say screw em. I also flip off every gas station I pass. Today $3.35 a gal, you have to kidding me. The Prius is ust my way of stickin it to the man…Now, the truth is I am also still the man, I kept my Range Rover. From time to time, when I feel my whiteness, my Texas manhood start to shrivel, I go out and burn a 30 gals real fast, just to prove it up…it is very confusing being a white man in America today….

Fully AGREED. But what about Saturns? For some reason all my friends’ Whole Foods-shopping, democrat-voting parents all drove Saturns, like, 8 years ago. They were big enough to pack in their kids’ soccer friends and got good safety ratings without having to be a mini van.

uh, just to *drive* your point home, from 1995-2000 i had a jetta, from 2000-2006 a subaru outback, and now a prius with a lovely obama bumper sticker.

Ahh this entry is too funny. I drive the Honda Civic hybrid because my primary goal was to save fuel and it looks like a normal car. But I suppose part of that rationale is that we all know an annoying, self-righteous Prius owner or two.

The lost commenter (Bob) said exactly what bothers me about Prius owners – while Prius sales are doing well, aren’t all other hybrids struggling to move units? And the problem seems to stem from the unique and noticeable body design. Why have a normal looking hybrid (like the Camry) when you can have an obvious hybrid to tool around in? And, as someone else noted earlier, if fuel economy were the #1 issue, the Geo Metro would have been moving more units all these years. However, after having driven a Prius a year or so ago, I’ll admit – this is a far superior car to the base model Ford Escorts and Geo Metros that got 40 mpg 15 years ago. But still – I would like to see strong sales of hybrids that look normal, like the Camry or Accord hybrids.

This is the ugliest car up along with every other subcompact vehicle made to date.

The reason that I and most people I know out in Arizona bought a Prius is to get access to the HOV lanes. There is nothing like blowing by the other cars on the way to work!

I do believe that some things are more white than others. But there are always exception to these rules.
Driving cars is the best way to waste energy, FAST.
I am a very good example for it. Coal fired power plants come right on it’s heels.
Fact is, if we don’t get our butts up and do something about the incredible damage we do every day to this world, our kids surely will have a miserable time surviving the mess we left them. I am serious. read the book Plan B 3.0 and things become pretty clear, pretty fast.
We need a mini revolution here in the USA and in the rest of this world to prevent this climate to go out of control. The Prius does a good starting effort in that. What about the Aptera which is getting 300MpG and will be released to production end of this year?? We need efforts like this and many more to get us out of the trouble we are in right now. Do not stick your head in the sand, it does not help us and gets your eyes and nose all clogged up.
With a perspective to a unified effort.

Stefan

i’m white, and drive a beat nine year old honda civic. if i could afford a prius, i’d spend the money instead on a 69 camaro.

yer blog isn’t that funny. it’s sort of like the onion, where the headline is the only thing worth reading.

You’re not talking about white people, you’re talking about yankees and Jews. Ain’t no white folks in my state that would drive a goddamn Prius!

The Prius is definitely a WPC (white people’s car). And Marin County, where I live, the [un]official Prius capitol of the universe. We have about one prius for every two residents, or so it seems. My husband and I once owned 3 Priui at the same time. At present we are 2 for 2.
I wonder what the new models will look like?

The Prius is how I know I’m not white (even though I received a BA in English Lit from a top tier American universty).

The Prius is the car God would make if God were a pussy. Thankfully, the Lord is more of a Ferrari kind of God.

If I had to drive a Prius, I know my penis would shrink until I got out of the car, probably it would stay shrunk for a little while longer. So hopefully, I wouldn’t be one my way to the beach or to the local pool to swim with my kids, because then they would think, daddy’s pee pee is small.

This one only applies to Democrats. Republicans wouldn’t been seen in a Prius, they enjoy their SUV’s way to much.

I bet not one of you f’ing Prius owners sent your existing car to the car shredder (or “metal recycler” as you would like to call it) when you bought your Prius. You either bought the Prius in addition to your current car, you sold your current car or traded it in. You’re not helping the environment. It’s called displacing the problem you idiots! But it makes you feel better so I guess it’s alright. My apologies. Go back to posting what great gas mileage you get in every internet forum you can find.

I can’t wait to see you counter-balance white people ‘like’ for Harley-Davidson motorcycles with their love for the Prius.

Seriously!

“South Park” had it right: the stuff Prius’es (Priusi?) is not smog but “smug”

Damn I’m brain dead tonight: the stuff Prius’es (Priusi?) leave behind is not smog but “smug”

What about a non-Prius hybrid? My Honda Civic Hybrid gets 40-45 mpg.

I got it instead of the Prius because it came with stick shift. Priuses don’t.

OMG … the VW Jetta? Got to be kidding. That epitome of an utterly uncool, look-at-me-I-got-neither-money-nor-style-vehicle that nobody ever wanted to be seen dead in over here? I always wondered where those went … now you´re telling me they shipped that one over to `merica and they liked it? Crazy world.

“I will never for the life of me understand the hostility this innocent little car arouses among so many Americans. You cranks can’t all be secretly on King Abdullah’s payroll, can you?”

So, your 25%-better-mileage-than-a-conventional-compact makes you King Abdullah’s mortal nemesis?

THIS is why people hate the car. Its cluelessly smug owners.

My Scion xA gets 40 mpg. Damn, if only I got 50 mpg, I could be a Saudi-independent maverick, too!

#58 – “you decide Jebus doesn’t exist anymore so you have to latch onto something else just as stupid like self-flagellation over fake global warming crap… Do me a favor: go to church. It’s retarded but at least those retards don’t try to tax me.”

Best. Comment. EVER.

Just a thought here…but if you do not have the option to use public transport (ie, it’s limited to nonexistent) and need to travel, isn’t it better to use a more fuel efficient car? Obvioulsy, there are other status symbol cars that are far less fuel efficient.

I don’t think environmental concern is necessarily fake; it’s just highly suspect in the holier-than-thou crowd. ;^D

Amusingly, my brother has a (non-Prius) hybrid SUV that he bought for use as both a daily commuter and for camping trips with the scouts. He’s intensely irritated by being lumped in with the moral superiority brigade because he got the car for its practical value (going 45 miles on a gallon can be quite useful in the middle of nowhere).

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I drive an 06′ Prius.

I’m also active-duty military, who lives 35 miles away from my installation.

Concerned about emissions ? In love with the push-screen inside ? Hate foreign oil, and moving ‘greener’ via my choice of car ? Care more about ‘Gaia’ ? No.

Laughing at the extended-cab, dual-axled pickups, and larger-than-a-house SUVs, lined up at the gas-station ? Not cringing when I fill up, the second or third time in a week, paying $3-plus per gallon ?

YES.

Gotta luv the prius wiggers going down the fast lane at 80+ mph with just the driver, no car pool blissed out in a holier than thou state of mind, biatch!

I agree with a couple other posters. Your blog is more directed toward liberal yuppies more than “whites”, but I can see where you are coming from. Most liberal yuppies are white, but not all whites are liberal yuppies.

I love it. You are characterizing everything that annoys the eff out of me in this world.

This one literally made me LOL.

so funny. love it. BTW I found the link to this blog on a blog called dallaspenn.com under the title “stuff black people like”

P.S Cheers to “sam” — Public Transit all the way baby!

This blog is absolutely hysterical…and totally on point. I live 3 blocks from Whole Foods and everything you say here about these liberal yuppies is true. So great.

I love that some here say the Prius is wasteful in its production…huh? ALL cars are wasteful in their production: they’re big f’ing hunks of metal…please. And to those listing gas engine cars that get 45 mpg or better: yea, but when you’re stuck in traffic for, like, two hours every day, going 3 miles an hour, a Prius (or other hybrid) engine shuts off and wastes no gas and produces no emissions: try to beat that with a BMW 335d. I love people spinning this stuff like there’s MORE negatives to driving a hybrid. Yea, let’s start shitting and pissing in the street, cause waste plumbing pollutes the environment anyway, so how is it better?
Oh, who the f cares, anyway, I’ll drive what I want and you drive what you want, it’s the American way.

well said confusius.

Prius?? Fugly auto. And most of the people I know who have them either dont drive them properly , or overkill and are slow a a turtle with 1 leg.

I say a good Honda Civic or Accord driven normally can [not lead foot though] can reap just about as good as the average Prius driver actually gets, not what they tell you they get.

And besides, most white folk drive minivans or suvs. You just cant pack in all the things you buy at the big box discount clubs, 3 or more kids and the into a Prius.

So… how exactly is a car that starts at under $22k considered “expensive?” Just wondering…

hey dad, yo dad, dad, it’s not just about mileage but emissions too…oh, forget it, just keep breathing.

What if you’re white and you have a white Prius, a white iBook G4, a white iPod classic and truly believe that Obama is white on the inside?

this was fuckin halarious….but i hate the whole concept of a prius. plus it looks like a scrunched aztec…which the only way that car could have gotten any uglier is if it was smaller. oops, such a car exists!!

I hate the Prius. It’s one of the most ugly cars ever. Epic fail on Toyota’s part in my opinion

Priuses are worse for the environment than Hummers… too bad for everyone who’s bought into the lie.

http://www.thecarconnection.com/Auto_News/Green_Car_News/Prius_Versus_HUMMER_Exploding_the_Myth.S196.A12220.html

Also, white people (females in general) like knitting/being crafty. And knitting clubs that meet in coffee shops. I know I do!!

Right on, blanquita….

It’s so funny that people pay $30K+ for their Prius, then at 100K miles they get hit with a $10,000 bill for a new battery, dumping the old one in a landfill and doing more damage than all the emissions they saved us commoners from.

I’ll stick with my little 4-banger low-emission honda, thanks.

I’m not white, but I want to buy a Prius. Why? cus it’s the only hybrid car that looks decent, still has an okay price, and is from a good company like Toyota. I don’t care much for the environment, but gas prices aren’t getting any cheaper. And Yes I know the extra price for a hybrid may offset whatever savings I may get from gas…but I can say f*ck one time knowing I spent an extra $2k on my car cus it’s a “hybrid” rather than say f*ck every two weeks when I have to gas my car now (which still gets 30 mpg, but I’d much rather get 40-50+)

~G

This goes way beyond cars. White people like buy anything that is significantly more expensive and marginally more efficient, especially appliances.

G-Spin2k1-

After reading your response I concur that you indeed aren’t white.

haha tedt. who needs the environment anyway.
~G

I’m white. I drive a blue Prius. No Obama sticker, just a couple of Hawaiian stickers.

I didn’t spend $30k for it. I spent $22K for it, cheaper than if I had replaced the old minivan with a new minivan. The minivan would have been $32K, so right off the bat I’m $10K better off. Now that gas is $3/gallon, I’m happy to drive something that gets 50mpg (the van got 20mpg on a really good day). My 3 kids, husband and dog fit into it just fine.

I’m also not worried about the battery going out. I’ve got a 100,000 warranty on it and it doesn’t cost $10K.

Considering the POS Dodge we used to drive only went 60K miles before needing a new transmission, I’m not worried at all.

I don’t really care too much about saving the environment. I’m just cheap and don’t like paying $60/week for gas.

Most white people can’t afford a prius. On top of that you should have said. Nascar or does the white people who like nascar prone not to read this blog or apply to any of these ideas or not really white.

I drive a Saturn hybrid, I can fit all my dogs in it, and I can listen to Belle and Sebastion, it rocks whitey style

#60 is one of the best yet on this site. Love it! I wish I had a Prius with a “Rockin with Barack” sticker but I am hispanic female. Hopefully that doesn’t make me a coconut.

My friend summed it up best: “If I had to choose between driving the Prius for the rest of my life or driving the Oscar Myer wienermobile, I wouldn’t be able to choose.”

people hate the Prius cuz they’re poor and can’t afford one. even if it didnt get the best gas mileage it’s still the best car on Earth, beautiful, fast, huge inside, full of awesome gadgets and you get to sneak up on people. i’m a conservative and wouldnt drive anything else. it was about $35k though so i guess poor slobs who cant save up can pretend they dont want one when theyre soooo jealous.

whats wrong with being white? I’ve been white almost all of my life (I was born blue), and I’ve enjoyed it. (not to knock folks of other colors). I’m buying a prius, not because of the environment, but because I dont want to buy any more camel jockey oil than I have too.

Just wanted to share my very white car. Late 80s volvo sedan with a vintage(!) apple logo on the back (came with the car), an ironic bumper sticker that just says “America” and another vintage “I *heart* skiing* sticker. Also a sticker proclaiming my small, white, liberal arts college I attended (where I majored in art AND Asian studies). Jesus.

But I have spent hours in the engine and under the car making the thing run, in my drive way. White people don’t like to know how their car works, thats the wrong kind of white. It also leaks oil and is a general piece of shit.

But my next car? Subaru. Fuck.

I am not white, only part white. Which means not white in America.
I think Prii are great cars. But not because they help the environment. Helping the environment is not driving a gas powered vehicle of any sort.
As for whitey loving Prii. Oh hell, yeah! But most of my white friends (I keep them as a buffer from non-white haters) who own Prii, do so because of the gas savings (inflated by whitey).
Admittedly, these gas savings allow them to drink, eat, and consume more whitey things but at least it’s not gas.
Currently, you can get an Obama sticker for less than a gallon of gas. Once that changes, well, revolution baby, revolution!

Oh, and one more thing (I love it when anyone starts with that phrase).
Fuck Prius! Try VW Golf diesel-hybrid(2009). That’s right! Our friends from Germany and V-Dub (two super white things) have put Toyota and it’s capitalist Prius up against the wall with a new form of hybrid car.
Costing $2500 more than the regular Golf, the new VW Diesel-hybrid claims a whopping 69mpg (and if you know engines, it can do it).
Now, you can be seen as loving the environment but also as supporting the whitest country there has ever been. Sig Heil the environment! Ja! (German is my favorite kind of white, it’s so…white, with no excuses).
So, I am waiting until 2010 to wear my half-whiteness like a friggin consumer product badge with my new diesel-hybrid car!

I was reading an article awhile back about the Prius being the favourite of Hollywood celebrities. It also mentioned that most of them charter private jets. The fuel used by a trip to LA from New York on one of these things is the equivalent of what a Hummer would use for a year.

To George Clooney:

Please trade the Prius for a Hummer and fly on Delta.

Hey, #141 blanquita, that article also puts into doubt the CNW study:

“This study has been completely contradicted by studies from MIT, Argonne National Labs and Carnegie Mellon’s Lifecycle Assessment Group. The reality is hybrids can significantly cut global warming pollution, reduce energy use, and save drivers thousands at the pump.”

It makes me laugh that people get so enraged with hybrid hatred that they can even justify a f’in hummer as environmentally conscious…give me a motherf’ing break. Hey, whoever is writing this blog, start one up called “people suck”.

“CNW’s figures, for example, show that the Civic Hybrid can cost nearly $165,000 more over its lifetime, “dust to dust,” than the standard Civic, which is a difficult figure to swallow, even considering the extra development, materials, and disposal of the Hybrid variant. Honda’s Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) system is a mild hybrid system and many engineers have admired its elegant and simple design and function, considering the efficiency gains.”

and this

“Toyota concedes that there is more energy required in the materials production stage for its hybrids, but says that it is overwhelmingly made up by less energy used during its driving lifetime.”

so if you’re going to talk about a big lie make sure you read the f’ing article first.

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My roommate wants on when she graduates… I, personally, think that they are fugly. But that is my opinion.

hahahhaa

wow. there are a bunch of goofs leaving comments, taking it WAY too seriously. this is the best blog i have ever read. so funny. great sense of humor!!!

Great site. It is funny and engaging and makes those of us with a smart ass sense of humor realize that our attempts to be helpful can be shown to be vacuous when viewed from a different viewpoint.

The whole Prius phenomenon reminds me of the time I worked for a company in Austin Texas that pushed the employees to use the dozens of recycling bins that they placed throughout the office. Everybody felt great (clappy cheerleader happiness) about helping the environment but nobody bothered to tell the cleaning crews who just poured the contents in with the regular garbage.

The Prius is just a car and right now it is as much of a fashion accessory/fad as a pair of Crocs.

I think it’s funny that you say that white people and their prius’ are going to the Obama rally….when in reality, most black people are only voting for him because he’s half black. At least I know what he stands for and what his policies are….

I’m sure someone has mentioned this, but I’m too lazy to scroll through all responses. You were right — it’s 48/45 mpg after the new EPA testing.

Awesome site, btw.

I can’t stand fashion-statement cars. The Prius, the BMWs, the Mercedes. They may be very nice cars, but people always look like total jerk offs in those cars. You know they’re thinking that they’re better than you. Those smug, self-righteous asshats. They’re looking down at you like you’re nothing. I’ll take a good ‘ole Civic or a Focus any day.

OK, I am convinced…
People really are Stupid and this is a Funny Blog.

When white people undertake graduate studies, they jettison the undergraduate expression,“helping the environment” in favor of the more scientifically hip, “reducing our carbon footprint.” Since the release of the blockbuster documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth” white people have suffered a form of mass hysteria called algorephobia – an excessive and irrational fear of global warming. Sales of the Toyota Prius have soared along with the rising fear that unless white people act now to cut carbon emissions they are in danger of leaving “our” children with a flooded and parched planet. White people are mortally terrified of this scenario because they envision a day when their bilingual children will come to hate them even more than they hate their own parents.

Mandatory accessories for the Prius calculated to maximize envy and superiority will include a bumper sticker, “My Other Car is a Range Rover” and, if the white couple is retro-hip and fertile enough, a “Baby on Board” sign affixed to the rear window.

At social gatherings, white people are known to work themselves into a lather over resolutions to send strong signals to incorrigible corporations about global warming. They flatter each other for supporting enlightened politicians who promise to express deep concern in stalled legislation that will come to the floor as early as next year.

After imbibing one too many glasses of merlot at a wine and cheese party some irate white people will blubber that unless “something” is done in the next couple of years (or decades) they’ll be damned if they don’t pack the Range Rover to the gills and, with the Prius in tow, head for the Canadian border. Not to worry. It’s only the liquor speaking.

Jeff (honky)

I TOTALLY hear that. Worst drivers around. Worse than any BMW driver (sorry, but it’s true: you guys are self-entitled cocklords) or rice-burner with 4 spoilers.

“Some white people decide to pull the ultimate move. Prius, Apple Sticker on the back, iPod rocking, and Democratic Candidate bumper sticker. Unstoppable!”

I take it by this statement that the author would prefer to see more Ford pickups with country music blaring on the FM radio and a Confederate flag proudly displayed in the rear window? (Also a shameless stereotype, I know–sorry).

Let’s face it, your Prius driving, iPod listening, politically liberal white American is hardly the norm in this country. We get the joke, though. “Affluent white liberals are douche bags.” It’s very funny. Really. But I’d rather be surrounded by a thousand affluent white liberal douche bags than one close minded, hate mongering, right wing bigot.

This site is pointless.

Curt, baby. Satire has no more to say about its target than a smart missile. Satire is conceived in sadism and born in hostility. It’s all about boom and burn upon impact. Think of it as a video game played with the vicious, subversive and witty weapons of intellect.

I’m not sure where you found your definition of “satire,” CLURT, but it seems to be fairly off the mark. If this site has nothing to say about its target, then it’s quite simply not satire. The great satirical works by writers such as Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jonathan Swift and George Orwell are politically and socially relevant in many ways… unlike this site.

What is satire if it is not social or political commentary, coated with humor in an attempt to make it easier to swallow.

“Stuff White People Like” is in no way satire, although it seems to try to be employing a satirical “voice.” There’s no actual substance behind it, though, which is why it fails on nearly every level. “Stuff White People Like” is lowest common-denominator entertainment, playing off of stereotypes and misconceptions.

Not to be curt with you, my definition of satire is pragmatic and not metaphysical. I am not trying to settle once and for all what satire “really is” but rather trying to frame metaphors which try to convey a sense of how it functions. If the satirist, the Master of this blog for example, finds a receptive, affirmative (LOL) audience for his exaggerated, stereotypical and, yes, sometimes mean-spirited observations of (“white”) human pretension, vanity and dysfunction, then voila, there you will find satire at work.

If you must have socio-political commentary then you may (or may not) be consoled by the urban legend that the Master delivers a “serious message” that whites belong to an ethnic group as much as any “minority.” You are not required under penalty of law to find anything on this blog either true or funny.

Oddly enough I tend to agree with you on what you say about “great” satire though I am also inclined to believe that the quality of satirical masterpieces is far removed from the the intention of this blog. “White stuff” is humorously written but largely derivative fluff. For tuned-in white fans, it’s like taking a bath in Cool Whip. It is so cool and white and afterwards, giggling white folks can lick themselves off saying things like, “Yum, this is so totally ME!

Not to be curt with you, but my “definition” of satire is pragmatic and not metaphysical. I am not trying to settle once and for all what satire “really is” but rather trying to frame metaphors which get at a sense of how it functions. If the satirist, the Master of this blog for example, finds a receptive, affirmative (LOL) audience for his exaggerated, stereotypical,sometimes mean-spirited and definitely contrived observations of “white” human pretension, vanity and dysfunction, then voila, there you will find satire at work.

If you must have socio-political commentary then you may (or may not) be consoled by the urban legend that the Master delivers a “serious message” to the effect that whites belong to an ethnic group as much as any “minority.” You are not required under penalty of law to find anything on this blog either true or funny.

Oddly enough I tend to agree with you on what you say about “great” satire though I am also inclined to believe that the quality of satirical masterpieces is far removed from the the intention of this blog. “White stuff” is humorously written but largely derivative fluff. For tuned-in white fans, it’s like taking a bath in Cool Whip. It is so cool and white and afterwards, white folks can lick themselves off giggling things like, “Yum, this is so totally ME!

Sorry for the repetition. System malfunction not pilot error.

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okay okay, so i have the prius, the barack sticker, and the ipod… but i don’t have an apple sticker..

god i’m so white:)

Curt you’re a moron and need to get over yourself. Every post of yours indicates the kind of pretentiousness and self righteousness that makes this list both possible and funny.
And your little bigoted, cliche-ridden diatribe also shows your huge hypocrisy in calling ANYONE “close minded” or “hate mongering”. But the fun is you can’t see past yourself to get it!

And if the site is pointless and for lowest common denominator….what does that make YOU for posting numerous times on it?! Keep up the unintentional comedy!

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Another thing that WHITE PEOPLE like: CHEESE

that is WHY the Toyota Prius is designed to look like a cheese wedge!!!

Sacramento: You will be surprised to learn that Laboratory experiments using mice, show that these creatures are also inexplicably attracted to the shape of the Prius.

My financial advisor (yes, that makes me white) brags that he currently owns 4 Prii. I guess that makes him at least 4 times more environmentally friendly. Can anyone else appreciate the irony?

I’ve been making and driving on biodiesel exclusively for the last 6 years. I drive about 10 miles per week. And I ride my bicycle to work. And I have an iPhone.

That’s why I hate the Prius.

“The better question might be why are only white people driving them?”

I’m not white and I drive one.

hehe. lemme see: a new Prius is what $25,000. I can buy, say, a used Corolla or Civic, stick, 4cyl, that might get “only” 30mpg for $5000 or less. I can buy a small ocean of gas for the difference in price.

people who pay a premium for hybrid or diesel under the delusion they’ll save money on fuel need to go back to 5th grade and re-do their math lessons so they can figure out that they’ll have to drive that greenwagen for 4-5-6 years before they break even on the cost over that of a non-hybrid/diesel version.

of course the ones who buy these things out of concern for the environment 4UEARTH (snort) blah blah blah and not to save on fuel costs have too much money and need to give it to me.

Prius is an acronym for Prior-to-Us. What the fuck does that mean?

you spelled “Barack Obama” wrong.

“Unstoppable!”

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

This post is true, so true and while “the truth shall set ye free”; it also hurts like hell which is why the Curts of the world are too bitter to acknowledge it, and seek, instead, to dissemble and deceive; themselves, mostly, since they are fooling no one else. This blog is humorous in the extreme, what subset of humor it can be categorized under is irrelevant. It just plain fun and I’m sorry I didn’t discover it sooner.

BTW, I don’t drive at all; not because I am concerned with my carbon footprint but because I’m…. “a Native New Yorker….. New York City girl…..” (anybody old enough to remember that song?)

I live in San Francisco now where the Prius is definitely a status symbol and I love the look of shock & disbelief on people’s faces when I say I have never driven, never considered driving and will never drive anything other than a golf ball off the tee. They of the carbon print-o-phobe set think I’m kidding them; they could never imagine actually walking somewhere or using public transportation. Too funny!

Oops! meant carbon FOOTprint-o-phobes, of course. I guess I should edit before I submit! Anyway, a great post among the many here on SWPL, thanks for the laughs.

lemme see, a used Corolla or Civic was bought by somebody when it was new. A new Civic base model is $15,000 and even new it got 30 mpg: a new Prius base model is $21,500 and gets 45-50 mpg. In four or five years people will be able to buy a used Prius for the $5,000 you quoted above and still get 40-50 miles…plus not put out any emissions when they are in rush hour traffic going 3 or 4 mph. The little extra money is well worth it…and the next model Prius will probably get 60-70 mpg (or more) and probably have even less emissions, so you do the f’ing math when gas is $4 or more a gallon (which will be pretty soon). But if you enjoy using more gas, paying more $, and breathing in more shit, knock yourself out.

Well, I am trying to decide which fuel efficient car to buy. I am concidering a hybrid. The cost difference between a civic H and prius are not much different but the prius gets better mpg. I had rather have the normal looking car. The gas civic is not that much cheaper either and with even less mpg. I commute 100 miles round trip each day so saving at the pump is my biggest concern. I test drove a gas civic and a prius, the prius actually seemed to have more get up and go. I have also noticed that people some say the battery replacement is 12000-10000 dollars, it is only 2400. I know people who bought the first prius’s and have still not had to replace the batteries.
I would like to know what is the predudice against the prius all about? They have had so far shown to be very dependable, great mileage, they are toyota (from Japan) just like Honda. So what is the problem? If any of the American companies had the same to offer I would definitly buy American. Besides my car I ride a Harley and we own a diesel Ford which we use only when needed.
SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

“I would like to know what is the predudice against the prius all about?”

some people are assholes…

Toyota was way off with the MPG. paying 25 grand+ for a car that has no design or style, not thanks. The Prius gets is around 44-45 MPG. Not 60

Diesel’s remain the best way to go.
Hard to find but the VW Jetta TDI, Golf TDI, or Passat TDI is a great car. Wit ha manual one can easily get 50 – 55 MPG.
[Diesel's last a lot longer then typical gas engines]

For the upper class people: Mercedes Diesel or Audi A6 or A8 Diesel cars are amazing on gas mileage and comfort.

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Look here…
This site is mediocre at best. It is mildly entertaining. Half of the items on this list are garbage. The effort and thought put into this list is pretty embarrassing.

if you want some actual funny entertainment/blog/writing/insightful/great stuff

http://www.garbarrassing.com

go for it.

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“It’s very funny. Really. But I’d rather be surrounded by a thousand affluent white liberal douche bags than one close minded, hate mongering, right wing bigot.”

What you don’t get is that these affluent white “liberal” douche bags aren’t really liberals, they ARE closed minded, snobbish and hate mongering right-wingers.

Funny Prius blog post my buddy wrote a few years back:

http://passionweiss.com/2006/01/24/im-a-good-person-i-drive-a-prius/

Why hasn’t Ikea made the list yet?

hey #193, seen the price of diesel fuel lately?

and I love how people here just make up their own figures on the Prius to prove a point and they’re usually bullshit.

As in:

It’s NOT $25K plus: a base Prius averages $21,500 in this country.

It gets 45-50 mpg, not 44-45: it varies on how you drive it and what time of year it is – more like 45 in the winter (I have one and know of a couple of people that also do, and they confirm the figure of 45-50 mpg).

But, you know, in the blogoshpere, if you write it then it must be the truth.

After reading this, I am definitely buying a Prius. That way I am that much farther from the ignorant and maladjusted wankers who are casting their judgements around like candy while feeling superior for wasting money that could be used better. Family money responsibilities? Who cares? That’s for white delusional chumps. At the same time I’m not supposed to notice the completely offensive and in your face Cadillac or large Chevy sedan bumping bass that can interupt any conversation within a quarter mile. Grow up, go home and face your kids, losers.

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sorry, but this whitey drive a 15mpg landcruiser. Prius’ are for libs.

This whitey drives a 600hp diesel smoke belting Dodge 4×4 on 41×14.50-20’s (and yeah, I still get 20mpg). Prius’s are for liberal fags who like to pat themselves on the back. They say they do it for the environment, but anyone who knows can tell you the batteries in hybrids cause REAL enviro damage, not the fase CO2 damage that we hear about from the Church of Catastrophic Man Made Global Warming. Furthermore, if these liberal dipshits actually wanted to save the environment they would go buy a used car (already built so no added resources needed) like a geo or better yet a diesel Volkeswagon Rabbit or Jetta converted to veg oil. But your typical lib doesn’t know sh*t outside of their academic psuedo-intellectual world. It makes them feel good right? There is a reason you don’t meet many liberal engineers, construction workers, farmers, fabricators or any other profession that actually creates things. They’d rather create liberal policy to tell those of us that DO, how to DO it. “Those who can do, those who can’t teach.”

True geeky whites drive the Honda Insight. The Prius is so…..common

:: wrinkles nose at the thought ::

I see 20 or 30 yuppie salarypersons driving a BMW for every Prius I see.

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Tried the low end Poor White Boy Matrix in Super White and found that the seats were to narrow to accomodate our ample butts on long trips to the country club. Would it be in poor taste to warn others that the Prius has the same seating qualities?

hey, individual: go fuck yourself with your Dodge (I’m sure it fits).

LOL

But my Prius gets 50 (winter) and 57 (summer) mpg; and the only reason I would vote for Clinton is to participate in Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos.

But I do love Apple products.

This blog should called things white liberals like. Do the research a prius poisons the environment where it is built and costs more to run over 5 years than a Hummer H2.

I got a Prius …..love it and fuck yes, it has a bumper sticker one that says 1.20.09 Bush’s last day… now that gas is about $3.25 per gallon all you Prius hating people can kiss my ass.. I can fill the thing for a lot less than what it costs you…..the higher the price of gas the smarter a Prius driver looks…….

I have a Prius and a Tahoe, the best of both worlds! And I live in the Midwest, in a mixed neighborhood and in a small house. I listen to rap, alt rock, hard rock, 70s music, and jazz pretty much sucks along with 80s music. We all don’t fit into any one category. But this is about the funniest stuff I’ve read in a long long time, i was laughing so hard at work today, i started crying. I sent it to everyone I know, including my black friends. If I had any gay friends I woulda sent it to them too. If you are taking this all seriously, you need to go outside more.

I doubt the whole battery on the Prius will go out at once, it is made of like 12 separate cells, and it is most likely only one cell will go bad at a time and can be replaced fairly cheaply.

Praise God for Obama!

Obama’s a racist

I drive an XTerra because we get a lot of snow here in the foothills of the Rockies and I actually go offroad. If somebody wants to make one that gets 50 mpg i’ll be the first in line to get one but until then urban Prius commies stop telling me how big a carbon footprint i’m leaving because frankly I don’t give a damn.

I thought only white fags drove the prius. All the other white ppl drive Mustang gt’s or jacked up 4×4’s. I guess I might feel differantly about the high milage of the prius, But I’m a white guy and don’t really care how much gas costs.
Heck, I saw a bus load of orfans crash into a prius the other day, Dang lil toyota crinckled up like a salted slug. Untill the fire started, the bus looked good to go. MAN that fire moved fast. Friendly orfans though, they kept waving to us as we drove by.

Ghengis Hahn, meet me. My Prius has no stickers (except my parking permit for work) and I live in a 1,000 square foot apartment.

I bought a Prius because I freaking love how they look. I drove a crap car all through college, graduated, now I have my dream car. I LOVE my Prius!

All you Prius people should move to San Francisco, bend over, blow a fart in your face and suck it all in, because that’s how ridiculous you are. Fuck the cost of gas and your stupid car.
It is a soul-less Jap piece of shit; buy German!

BTW, catch the new season of South Park (another Whitey show) on Comedy Central every Wednesday at 10/9C. This is not an ad.

Sincerely,
Radiohead listening, NY Times reading, non-American Idol watching, racist white dude.

Most Pirus owners then proceed to double their driving mileage, so they can be seen by al ltheir friends.

But for me, when the weather cooperates I all my travelling on an electric version of a cheap plastic chinese motor scooter (often erroneously called a “moped”) , or i ride the bus – even the 86B to Home(slice)wood! Yes, I assure you, I am white. Needless to say, the white urban hipsters on their expensive Vespas avoid even looking at me.

btw, thants Tony, for telling me about this site. I’ts hilarious, although I suspect it’s run by a friend of Clarence Thomas or Alan Keyes.

Except, Mr. Swoggle 211, that the reasearch that conclusion is based on is biased crap, as pointed out by others in this post…but you’ll continue to quote it.

Let’s see, we (human beings, but mostly those in “developed” countries) have so far dumped shitloads of chemicals and metals in land and rivers; atomic waste where we can get away with it; landfills full of crap the size of small states; pouring tons and tons of crap into the air from coal burning power plants, factories, and millions of cars; the parts from the computer I’m typing this on and you’re reading it on will probably poison some poor guy in India or China; and I’m leaving out a bunch of other stuff……..but the batteries from the Prius are the most heinous damage we’ll ever do to the environment: give me a royal fucking break.

Oh and if I buy a Prius, I’m supposed preaching to Hummer owners and they get all upset: yea, well, EAT ME.

And as far as some people here saying that Prius owners should buy used cars: yea, we should buy used cars while you plunk down thousands of dollars for fucking hunk of crap Hummers, Explorers, and piece-of-shit Dodges….EAT ME twice.

VW Jetta TDI cost $21,000 at base.
You can get Civic DX 1.8L for $11,000 at base.
There is no way to save enough gas to make up $10,000 difference.

Yes, Prius is a lot of money for sub-compact four door car. Prius isn’t Hyundai Azera (not Alera). Azera is a Big Sedan and Prius isn’t. In fact, you could probably get Azera cheaper than Prius that’s better equipped and cost lower than owing Prius.

You can get Civics/Corolla/Sentra/Elantra/Mazda3.

If you really wanted to save gas, you start peddling your expensive bicycle. Whites already like bicycles anyway. So, car is unnecessary.

And those who are all giddy over paying less for the gas.. listen up.. .You pre-paid for the gas, idiots! you paid premium to spend less money on gas. Fools. The gas price will go down to $2.50 in 1 year.

Prius is very slow and annoying. I rented it when I traveled to san frainbow. It took forever to get up and go. I didn’t get 45mpgs. I got like 35mpg in the city.

You should go to a website that doesn’t offend your white sensibilities. Take your Prius and shove it up your effete, sanctimonious asshole. My Hummer has a big American flag decal on it, I bet that makes your little Marxist goatee quiver. hahahahahahaha

yea, but it’s still a piece of crap

and offend this right here

And what’s wrong with being a Marxist? Harpo was my favorite. And I’m a Lennonist too, liked him better than McCartney.

I heard this somewhere and it’s so true: Ever notice liberals and celeb-types always pick the Prius as their eco-freindly car of choice even though there are tons of other hybrids out there to choose from. If you see a big grown-up 60’s hippie wanna-be out there in a hybrid it’s never a Ford escape or something like that…it’s a Prius. Why? Because the Prius shouts “Hey everybody!!!! Look at me! I drive a PRIUS! Look how much I help the earth. LOOK AT ME! Now go hate yourself in your stupid Hummer.” You just don’t get the same effect in the other hybrids.

IMHO, Living in Cupertino, CA and having worked at the Apple Corp. campus as a temp, I guess it wouldn’t shock anyone about all the Priuses you’ll find in the parking lot. It was the first thing I noticed on my first day to work. I got such a laugh out of it. Also, not to knock Apple because I think they make OK products, they are the most NON-diverse company I’ve ever worked in. They all hire people like themselves, they all look like sixty’s hippy wannabes.

This site is so damn funny.

hey, 226, it couldn’t be you’re seeing more Priuses because out of all the listed hybrids they get the best mileage, could it?

see for yourself:
http://www.hybridcars.com/shop-for-cars/sedan

(yea, I know it’s only 46mpg, but it’s still at the top of the list, and contrary to what people keep repeating here, not the most expensive)

and that Toyota made it the first mass-produced hybrid that people actually like?

“Because the Prius shouts “Hey everybody!!!! Look at me! I drive a PRIUS! Look how much I help the earth. LOOK AT ME! Now go hate yourself in your stupid Hummer.” ”

Man, you must be hittin’ the bottle, cause I never heard a car talk.

All this nonsense about if somebody drive a Prius then they’re saying this or that is utter bullshit. Simply stated: you don’t like the car I choose, choose another one, but leave me the fuck alone, asshole.

and on that website there’s only four hybrid sedans listed as being in production, and the Prius is the cheapest at an MSRP of $20,800, so maybe that’s why more people go with that one…….oh but wait, no, they’re trying to put other people down by buying it, I forgot….

eat me

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“Some white people decide to pull the ultimate move. Prius, Apple Sticker on the back, iPod rocking, and Democratic Candidate bumper sticker. Unstoppable!”

HAHAHA I drove by a car matching this EXACT description today

Prius? nope… i have my own hybrid though…i burn gas and rubber! i drive a 10 mpg 350hp Chevy Nova, and i can almost see the air being damaged as it meets the exhaust coming out my pipe…. =)

11 Jeff:

“White conservatives hate Prii, and don’t tend to recycle, or care about poor people, or use natural medicine.”

I’m actually a libertarian, but since you lefties tend to lump everybody not lefty together I’ll take a crack at this:

1. The Prius. Yeah, nothing says social responsibility and, “I love the environment more than you” quite like several hundred pounds of lead-acid battery pack.

2. Recycling. I recycle. I reuse my brass casing to make more cartridges and I sell my aluminum cans to a scrap yard. Rather than replacing my vehicles with a newer trendier model every 3-5 years, I drive a 30-year-old truck and a 32-year-old car.

3. “Natural Medicine.” I’m willing to use anything that works based on scientific results. “Natural medicine” is noticeably lacking in the scientifically-quantifiable results arena. Funny how folks who bash Christians for having “faith” in an invisibile, unknowable entity will so willfully buy snake oil masquerading as “medicine,” is it not? Hint: if it isn’t FDA-approved and the makers are unwilling to submit it for FDA testing it’s probably bullshit.

From 234,
“1. The Prius. Yeah, nothing says social responsibility and, “I love the environment more than you” quite like several hundred pounds of lead-acid battery pack.”

Hybrid car batteries are NOT lead-acid type, they are “nickel metal hydride” batteries..

“The auto industry uses over one million metric tons of lead every year, with 90% going to conventional lead-acid vehicle batteries.”

so how are hybrids the main problem?

“While batteries like lead acid or nickel cadmium are incredibly bad for the environment, the toxicity levels and environmental impact of nickel metal hydride batteries—the type currently used in hybrids—are much lower.”

and the companies have a plan for the end life of the batteries:

“Toyota’s pays $200 to get a dead battery back and “every part of the battery, from the precious metals to the plastic, plates, steel case and the wiring, is recycled.” Honda collects the battery and transfers it to a preferred recycler to follow their prescribed process: disassembling and sorting the materials; shredding the plastic material; recovering and processing the metal; and neutralizing the alkaline material before sending it to a landfill.”

Plus, the battery technology is still being developed:

“Honda, Toyota and the entire auto industry are pumping millions of dollars into research regarding lithium ion batteries for tomorrow’s cars. Their primary motivation is to reduce the cost and increase the potency of hybrid batteries. Fortunately, supplanting lead and nickel batteries with rechargeable lithium batteries is also promising from an environmental perspective. Instead of clogging landfills with more toxic chemicals, hybrids—especially future hybrids powered by lithium ion batteries—may represent greener pastures for car batteries.”

I mean, WTF, hybrids have been on the market for just a few years, they’re going to get better and better, no one is saying they have been perfected yet.

Better than driving an Escalade.

One thing I’d like to say is that when a white person buys a new Prius, they don’t completely decommission their old car or ‘recycle’ it. They sell it to someone else who will drive it. Thus- one more car on the road. Most of the pollution that comes from a car is in mining the ore, transporting materials, manufacturing, and transporting the finished car. So, you should probably punch anyone in the face if they say that their car is good for the environment. Cars are a necessity in large part with today’s infrastructure. I mean, even if you are a traveling tramp, and have no more than the clothes on your back and a bag full of supplies, you still get rides from people who do have cars.

I was bought a new car by my parents upon graduating from my liberal arts college. I had a ‘91 Honda Accord that was really an incredible car. Now I have a 03 Subaru Forester, right up there with top white car contender status (at least it is not the LL Bean edition, but I make up with it with the kayak racks on top). Hopefully, I can drive it forever and some of the whiteness will eventually be smudged off, although I believe that a Subaru has a 50-year supply of whiteness somewhere in its horizontal engine that is periodically transmitted to all parts of the car. I didn’t really realize what sort of white person stereotypes I would be setting myself up for when I got the car. I just thought it was a good sturdy car with decent mileage and the most incredible transmission I have ever felt. Its good at getting me to the kayak launch or the rock climbing crag.

I live down South in lower Alabama. Here, we have a somewhat confused white people culture. Conservative types try to maintain a palpable aura of ‘toughness’- I have heard of it referred to as ‘cool n’ tough.’ This involves giant F-250 King Ranch trucks, but they often can be found wearing high performance outdoor clothes. The difference is that instead of buying their stuff at REI they buy it at the BASS Pro Shop. They like to maintain the same state of white guy readiness for the outdoors, but they prefer to have more, and larger, motorized equipment at the ready.

I do know that they have very little in common, other than that they like to use the same spaces. During the winter, the first type, my type-the ‘athletes’, feel grieved that some of their favorite outdoors spots are overrun by the second type, the ‘outdoorsmen.’ The outdoorsmen are in large part ridiculous, untrained poachers and trigger happy hunters, likely to blast you like you were a deer. There are some who can bridge the gap with a classy approach to multi-use lands and safe hunting practices. I am trying to become one of these. This way I can be a hunter- a hunter who rides his bicycle to the deerstand. I will have the cred on both sides of the Southern white person’s camp.

Damn! I’m 10 years too late. I drive a Jetta.

This is so true its not even funny……….. Hey if you want to really be white and listen to some indie folk check out

http://www.myspace.com/15keys….. Listen and enjoy the whiteness.

“One thing I’d like to say is that when a white person buys a new Prius, they don’t completely decommission their old car or ‘recycle’ it. They sell it to someone else who will drive it. Thus- one more car on the road.”

This is the dumbest argument of all against hybrids – or against anything. No shit hybrids still pollute: they have to be made and transported and still use gas. They just pollute a little LESS: and each generation of hybrids – or electric cars – should pollute less and be more efficient than the one before, that’s the whole idea of developing them.
But by that logic of the above argument, we shouldn’t develop better or more efficient anything, because we should just use the old stuff. There’s a place where development of cars stopped in one era and people just do their best to fix the falling apart hunks that remain: it’s called Cuba.

COLORADO = snowboarding = environmentally friendly = an Obama state = plenty of gay people = everyone wears outdoor performance clothing

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“The Prius might be the most perfect white product ever. It’s expensive, gives the idea that you are helping the environment, and requires no commitment/changes other than money.”

Wow! Sick burn.

I guess the Prius is pretty white but i bet alot of asian in california drive them as well. I think a distinction needs to be made betweeen “new whitness” and “old whiteness”.

The Subaru is still the whitest car in the world, and there is no need to make a distinction between Forester – Outback – Legacy – Impreza or Brat, as you have had to do between Toyotas – You wouldn’t call the Camry a completely white car. Sidenote: Roofracks just look better on Subarus.

The Subaru is the white persons car in its purest form!

[...] #60: Toyota Prius It’s a pretty sweet deal for white people. You can buy a car, continue to drive to work and Barak Obama rallies and feel like you are helping the environment! [...]

Didn’t anyone buy a Prius to save money? I’m saving a bundle at the gas pump with mine, and being a Toyota, it will probably last me 15 years and cost me very little in repairs. And I’m no yuppie – I’m an ostener (old small town educator nearing retirement).

Sorry, but you missed this one. The real choice car for white people is the Hybrid Honda Civic. My mother in law drives one, and she should know. She’s white, a member of the Sierra Club, a devout Democrat, and “An Inconvenient Truth” is her bible.

I love the idea of a Prius, but unfortunately was born with improper genetics and have way to much testosterone.

I am trying to institute my own form of gene therapy by converting my Jeep with 35 inch tires to a diesel so I can run BioDiesel I make at home from free McDonalds cooking oil and get 30 mpg.

But knowing myself, I will most likely convert it to a HEMI instead or simply buy regular middle eastern originating Diesel because it’s so much less effort.

Honestly, I just feel better now that I’ve posted this and may keep what I got, getting about 12 pmg.

Really though, I think this should be a “white people from San Francisco” site. White people in Texas would be a very different list since we know our state would be better off as it’s own country.

That’s funny…I thought this was a post about Seattle. You mean white people all over the US do this too?!

The Jetta and Prius are top Gay guy cars, while the Saab is a top Lez car. While that can fall in the white people category, it’s dominated by Gay guys

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[...] #60 Toyota Prius [...]

If we owned one of them Kias
I’d never let anyone see us.

It isn’t a bummer
our owning a Hummer

Cuz only the GAYS drive a Prius.

I THINK PRIUS ARE THE BISOMBA

IF I COULD AFFORD ONE I WOULD LICK MY BALLS BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS

THEN I WOULD WRITE TO THE CONSTITUTION AND TELL THEM HOW COOL THEY ALL ARE

THAT IS MY MESSAGE

[...] STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE: THE TOYOTA PIOUS [...]

Where *else* but in USA can I get ridiculed for the kind of car I drive? So what, I drive a Prius. I ride a bike to work when there’s not snow on the road. The Prius sits at home.

Pretty pathetic arguments to ridicule someone about.

After 14 years of doing the ‘right thing’ and driving a POS American car, I wanted back to Japanese engineering. I chose Prius because I have had good luck with Toyotas in the past. I chose Prius because I can park free in my city. I don’t have to have a smog check. It costs me $25 to fill up the tank.

I *fortunate* enough to still have a job in the US that pays well enough to afford me this one luxury.

All you naysayers, go find something else to battle about … like torturing people or Imperialist violence for a lie.

I aim for them.

This is all true. I look at those people with pitty. Wasting their lives driving a tiny piece of crap. All for the big Al Core hoax.
Its a “feel good” purchase for those jerks who think they will be noticed in a good way. Most of the smart, logcial, common sense people laugh their butts off at those idiots.
All your doing is buying in to Al Gore’s angry “I lost the Presidency” stab at the world.

Whatever I’m getting off on a tangent. Sorry.

Yeah, I’m totally behind in the whole pretending to be green thing. I still have a Camry because of that irritating bit of logic that says that plugging in your car ALSO requires fossil fuels. I feel so unhip because of my ever-uncool intolerance for bullshit.

I’m a white person with a prius, and you are the funniest person on earth!
God! it’s brilliance! it’s so freaking true!
Ha!

I’m unbelievably white, I love Barak Obama, I’m pro-mac, and I’m super democrat in a democrat city, and I drive this brand new prius which is like this styrofoam car which handles llike a packing peanut and I’m totally listening to Sufjan Stevens (cause I coughed up just enough dough for the nice speaker system) and talking to my mom on the car bluetooth system (which is crap) while i drive from my apartment to my job where I work as a receptionist, which pays just barely enough to support this vehicle.
And it doesn’t even stop there.

my Prius is beige.

Ha!
God. it’s so true and funny.
So much love for you, blogger guy.
So much love for you.

guilty! i’m so white.
but i do love my prius.

I think the update to this would be the ’smart car’. My chiropractor is uber-white and she just got one. She’s very excited about it because it’s good for the environment (compact and gets great gas mileage).

It takes me twenty to fill my tank for two weeks which is great cause then I can buy more weed.

I’m a college student. Drunk people busted out the windows in my 1997 Cadillac El Dorado. So, my white dad thought it was time for me to have a new car anyways knowing that my birthday was just around the corner. Being overprotective (a very white person characteristic) he wanted to buy a Hummer 3. “Dad,” I said, “that is not what I’m all about.” Instead, I encouraged the Prius. I have it now…I love it now…and girls really do dig the back up camera.

The worst thing about the Prius is that its so damn ugly, i would never ever buy one, if someone gave me a Prius i would sell it really cheap just to get rid of it.

Is it impossible to build a flexi-fuel car that looks good? probably yes.

i will continue drive petrol powered cars until the oil sources of the world is empty or i die (what ever occurs first)

U-Turn, the gang leader on Weeds, outfitted his whole crew with Priuses because “they’re quiet so you can sneak up on bitches.”

I love your stuff. I am white and some how u teaCH me About whIte peOple . ha ur obsessed bUt it’s funny !!!

ToyOta Prius, white PPl Do like them huh.. I never tripped on this.. Ima get one i guess???

this blog is hilarious! i can’t get enough, every white person with a prius and a mac that i know loves this stuff… hahhahaaa

I’m white and I take a bus to work.

So take your Prius and shove it.

As a white owner of two Prius’s (priusi ?) I take great pride in being as much of a prick to the gas guzzling Hummer drivers out there as they are to us. I also like to drive around the gas station in circles and make the attendant cry.

I’ve mastered the glide and coast and I average 58 MPG on my drive to work.

The only thing better would be if I could actually run the thing on Latte’s poured directly into the tank. ;–)

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well, i find prius people to be smug assholes. if they were really serious they’d ride bikes and work in the renewable energy industry.

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While funny, actually a Prius IS good for the environment and takes out some of the harmful gases in the air. Do a little Googling and find out.

Awwww… I like my prius!

Good post. I think soon you should step it up and mention car sharing. This excellent invention allows people-to-whom-your-blog-applies, like me, to drive a Prius, yet not take on the responsibility of owning one. We have advanced our guilt towards global warming, oil wars we don’t fight in, and urban parking, to the extreme that we like to be able to say, “Well, I don’t actually own a car, but when I really need one, I drive a Prius from Zipcar.” There’s even a suggested anti-corparate subtext in the idea of ’sharing’.

I’ll leave it to you to figure out how your readers can use this information to their advantage. Thanks for the laughs.

This whole green thing is a just a way for Big Business to sell everybody new crap. And it’s working because many people love to think they’re doing something beneficial when buying consumer products.

Green also has the benefit of channeling a worthwhile urge to improve the world into an area that makes Big Business money rather than into an area that threatens Big Business, you like, like single payer health care or trade unionism.

I made bushel-baskets of dough from anti-pollution equipment, green has been very good to me. Long-green is the only goddam green I care about.

As a prius owner I laughed as well. The article is funny. However, so many of you miss the point on why we “white people” drive a prius. I drive one simply for the gas mileage based on how many miles I drive daily for kids/work/commute. At 4.00 a gallon gas prices, the Big Man is screwing me at the pump. I paid cash for my car, so I am still debt free and saving on gas. And I average about 42 miles a gallon.

This single dad of two could not afford the gas companies screwing anymore.

As for green…I prefer my green in the bank.

What is better – a hybrid or electric car? Get a free ride in an electric car

Check out this link…..

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/rnr/640190062.html

[...] stiffs will still have to show up for work. And who drives the biggest, least fuel efficient vehicles on the market? I can tell you it’s not some cowboy in Texas who drives 40 miles to and from [...]

Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Truth, Equality, and Justice?

http://www.survival-international.org

Please note: A properly tricked-out Prius would look sick!

Okay, for all yall who bought a Prius to ’save the enviroment’, there’s a cheaper way. Go grow algae. No matter what foolish white tree-huggers tell you, algae is responsible for 90% of the world’s oxygen through photosynthesis. So instead of spending $21,100 on a Prius, fill a hole with water. Beats the hell out of buying another car.

Some of you folks are far too image conscious. (What will people think?…That I’m a sissy?…That I have a little… you know…That I’m…gasp… liberal… and have a little… you know) You need to be less emotional and more practical, and by practical, I also mean pay attention to your emissions.

I need a new car. I drive 2 suburban miles to work, so I’m hoping to buy a hybrid. Let’s see…save money, pollute less, brag to my friends and family about when the last time was I had to fill up. It’s a no-brainer to me. I could care less about any false quick impressions someone makes about me based on the car I drive. If there wasn’t such a huge uphill climb on the way home I’d just ride my bike (we live in mountainous terrain and my knees suck).

Love the idea about the algae.

FYI, My experience with all my cars has been that when I measure highway miles my car gets far better than the estimate. I have asked the dealer why they underestimate mpgs (they do with Subarus, by a lot). He told me it’s so they don’t get the person mad who gets the ocassional car that doesn’t get the real mpg. So, the true mpg number should come from an owner who has measured it several times.

You are so right – my white sister and grandfather both drive these. Yeesh.

“Some white people decide to pull the ultimate move. Prius, Apple Sticker on the back, iPod rocking, and Democratic Candidate bumper sticker. Unstoppable!”

Someone has visited Boulder recently…haha.

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I have an Obama sticker on the back of mine, right under the I take it in the ass sticker.

Ah yes, when I slip behind the wheel of my prius, it means I’m better than you, and thats what all this bullshit means to the no soul, wanna life experience white people. From coffee to the grad school, to Obama to gays, I’m better than you. Whites are some sad, suffering fools.

Ah, the only thing sweeter than the 49 mpg I get in my Prius is my incredibly hot Japanese girlfriend. Talk about the White People Daily Double — dating a hot Asian babe while driving a fuel efficient MADE IN JAPAN car!

I say: Buy a Prius and put a few more ignorant rednecks out of work.

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Does the Prius really come with a gerbil holder? You people are some sickos.

The Prius is for leftists wracked with white guilt over their own success. They look so miserable when they drive this ugly piece of you-know-what, yet adorn the back of it with their favorite little smug saying, usually about how we must all be tolerant (directly over the F*** Bush sticker).

I think it only makes good economic sense to buy a hybrid. I prefer my mac over pc any day. That doesn’t make me an ecocentric democratic liberal. When a good thing comes along, it makes more sense to go for it than sit idolly and wait for sh** to happen. Set your eyes on the priis.

Around here most of the Prius’s I see are driven by people with higher amounts of melanin in their skin. I have a neighbor three houses down who is a damn good fellow who happens to be a retired Air Force officer who is supporting McCain. Sorry to dampen your stereotyping. Please keep in mind people that some of the Fox News and NPR insightful humor is neither insightful nor humorous.
You are now free to denigrate people who drive F-150’s as being rednecks.

..an African American who drives a Prius and supports McCain (~:

Friday May 16th 2008 – Oil trading at 126.90 up 2.79.. I’m loving my ugly little Prius more and more every day….

lmao i love being white

My young white male Doctor wants a Prius. Now, I’d like one but not at the price they sell for. Give me a break. If it costs more than 10,000. it’s highway robbery. The Gas is highway robbery, we won’t have a highway to drive on if no one can afford the gasoline anymore.

I can’t wait to see the Pruis driver (whitey) throw a cigarette butt out the window. I know a Prius driver that doesn’t even recycle.
What’s up with that?

I think this is great. I love things that are sarcastic and it is so freaking true!!! BTW I am white and I own a Scion xB not a prius

Replace all the words “white” with “black” and see how fast you can be a racist.

About me:

Young, definitely not gay, non-white (Indian), ex-Marine, Obama supporter living in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Why do I drive the Prius?
Cuz the trunk is big enough to hold my RPG-7!!

Favorite thing to do?

Watch as some tobacco-chewing, beef jerkey-eating, bud-drinking, cousin-humping, global-warming-denying, bible-thumping, hypocrite-flag-waving, conservative redneck-redstate soldier-wanna-be dipsh@*t try to run me off the road in his super-hemi-Powersmoke jacked-up F350 POS.

Step 1: Speed up, pull over a mile ahead

Step 2: Open Trunk, remove RPG-7

Step 3: Aim, pull trigger, and watch it go thru vehicle at supersonic speeds (sorry Sherlock – mine has the tandem warhead, so it’ll go through your M1A1 too!)

Step 4: If said vehicle contains any of the following individuals:

Jorge,
Not-A-Republican,
Sherlock,
Mike,
Bunch of Prius Homos,
Individual,
Mark,
Rag4u,
WhiteConservativeRepublican

Then, proceed to pull them out of burning vehicle, and string
corpse (or what’s left) up on a bridge, Fallujah-style!!

Step 5: Make sure to carry at steps 1-4 above with the a smug, snooty, snobby Prius smile!

Prius’ piss me off!!!

Hey, I found some hillarious stories and video at this site you guys may like. Check it out.

http://www.mikesthinktank.com/

$4.++ a gallon. Drive those old white boy trucks…ha ha

I love grammar and correcting other people! You misspelled Barack.

Amazing what difference a few months and the price of gas make. The only color that matters now is green. Not being environmentally green, but having the bucks green. Make fun of the Prius all you want, but you’ll wish you had one and that the other car makers had the foresight Toyota did.

I own a Prius, and yes white people love it, but they also love this site check it out!!!!

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Not only White guys love Toyota Prius but Black men also love these cars. That is a cool car.

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No matter what color you are, the Prius is a smart car. It’s no more expensive than any other midsize car (if you don’t get all the toys on it) and mine gets 50 mpg on a daily basis without me trying. It’s comfy, roomy and good transportation. If it’s good for the environment.. that’s ok too I guess, but that’s not why I bought it. I’m a working musician (yes, I make a living at it and it’s work) and the only way I can pay the bills is to drive to gigs all over the place hauling equipment. This car is a great gigging car…
I didn’t buy this car for any other reason but gas mileage. The car I traded in for it was a red Mazda 3 hatchback. SO CUTE!!! but only 28 mpg. I hated the Prius at first (dorky looking car) but I have learned to love it.
Oh.. and I am white.. and you spell it STATION WAGON not stastion wagon.

I love people who own Hummers. Actually, I love people who own Hummers and Escalades, especially older Hummers and Escalades bought from wholesale lots that have tons of shiny, aftermarket crap on them and booming stereos.

Anyone tried to sell one of those POS’s recently? I imagine that it’s about like selling a house in Pheonix these days. Fucking impossible.

Once gas is $1/gallon again, I guess the joke will be on those stupid Prius owners.

Be strong, be cool, be upside down in your car payments, but whatever you do, don’t be white or liberal. White liberals are stoopid.

You forgot the fact that the Prius is a Japanese car — extra Asian points — but it’s built in America — extra labor movement points.

Just on the lack of reasonable research, yes it runs clean but it seems the battery element of the wretched thing goes through (yes that’s how we spell it here) a 9 stage manufacturing process involving no fewer than 7 trips by those other ultra clean carbon efficient transpotation mechanisms, aeroplanes.

Don’t know it to be true but it’s said while it’s the cleanest to run, it is, by a country mile the dirtiest to produce.

They’re taking over!! Look what they plan to do to the Hummer!!

http://www.unconfirmedsources.com/index.php?itemid=3288

I’ll buy a Prius anytime…but I’ve been everywhere and none is available. Back-order and you have to wait for 8 weeks. This car is so popular right now.

But if I have to wait8 weeks for a car that I like…then….it’s all worth it.

I bought a 2008 Prius because…gas is expensive. It also looks cool, handles nicely (very little body roll, good acceleration at higher speeds, nimble steering, extreme braking ability), is extremely quiet, has lots of space, has amazing electronics inside (backup camera, push button start, touchscreen, drive-by-wire, etc.), has an excellent sound system, has good resale value (the waiting list is three months for a 2008 Prius!), is easy to manoeuver on downtown streets, has received many awards for engineering, popularity and reliability, comes with a very attractive warranty and the Canadian government offers a rebate of up to $4000 on it! The people who single out Prius owners (or any other car owner) are either jealous, idiotic, really enjoy buying fuel, or all of the above.

We drive a Prius during the week so we save enough $ in fuel costs to enjoy our Suburban on the week-ends and vacations towing a 7,000 lb. trailer.Republicans and loving our right to do what we want. Oh, that’s our Chevy’s White version of the Escalade…yo!

Screw the envrionment and saving the world…. I’m doing Prius because I refuse to be raped by the oil barons!!

I went from paying over $400 a month to gas up my Chevy Astro, to $100 a month.

Even first grader math will tell you that the savings makes most of my car payment!

If you let the man continually rape you financially, they will keep doing it!!!

sounds expensive wow wow wow how do you sleep at night knowing your pissing away more money every month than you care to share ? I drive my Prius about 800 miles a month, I fill the tank 1 1/2 times for a cost of about 100 dollars, You fill your tank maybe 4 times a month at about Im guessing ……………..500 dollars a month? Holy White man Batman ! If you bought a used Prius for say 18K and had Great Credit and got say 6% rate you would pay about 325 a month for 60 months, Hmmmm ? (this does not include your car payment of Im Guessing…….300 to 600 dollars a month, Lets See that would be a grand total of say (low ball) 800 bucks a month not including your Car Insurance for a landcruiser (lets say 200 dollars a month) so thats about a Grand a month X 60 months……Hmmm lets see that would be about 60 Thousand Dollars to drive your “Look at me Landcruiser” for 5 years. Wow Math reallly makes you want to go Load your Shotgun and buy a gallon of Vodka huh !!!!! See you in Hell Broke Boy (if you want to kick my ass im the White asshole in the Prius gettting 55 MPG listening to my Micheal Bolton CD while kicking back a 5 dollar Latte that I got for free from my best friends wife because I know shes been Porking the guy who drives the 15 MPG landcruiser and if she does not buy me a Starbucks every day Ill rat her Whore ass out and she will be sent back to her home on Whore Island (lets see 5 dollar Lattes every day for 30 days thats 150 dollars I save on my favorite White Persons Drink) Damn aint I a Shit !

I own a Prius and drive it because the mileage is great. Their being expensive is a myth. The base Prius is about $23,700 and has a backup camera, ipod jack, side airbags, stability control, digital climate control, and a smart key system with a pushbutton ignition. People foolishly compare its price to base compacts and subcompacts, while the Prius is an extremely well equipped roomy midsize car. Seriously its just a car. I truly dont think that most Prius buyers’ spines are tingling about how cool everyone else is gonna think they are. Get it right folks. I sell cars and gays and lesbians usually buy coupes because they don’t have to be bothered by kid space. Its crazy how many homophobic hybrid haters are out there. Its just butt-sex and its just a car.

P.S. I’m a man married to a woman and have no stickers on my Prius. Hoorah for generalizations!

P.P.S. Find something to love rather than hating everything.

Screw Prius

Toyota Hilux or nothin’

“Continue to drive to Barack Obama rallies” HA!!!

http://death-sentences.blogspot.com/

Even funnier than the post itself are all the comments from Prius owners who are COMPLETELY OFFENDED that you would dare criticize their automobile! I’m particularly partial to the, “It’s just a car,” post that veers off into something about gay people and what is so great about Priuses. It’s almost like they missed the part about how Prius owners love to make themselves feel better by bragging about their car.

Oh, and to the doofus who said that they’re cheap: $23,000+ is not cheap for a new car when Toyota makes several that get 30-35 mpg for much less. Face it: the Prius is a status symbol and an instrument of white guilt.

Ugh. I hate the Toyota Prius! It looks like the aborted baby between a Camry and a Saturn. I don’t care how good the gas mileage is or if it runs on sunshine and ferry dust – the thing is hideous.

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2 months w/ my 08 Prius.. Love the car, hate that piece of shit package 6 JBL stereo system. Toyota and JBL should be ashamed of this sorry excuse for a stereo. I’d get better sound from a 40 dollar ghetto blaster sitting on the back seat!!! It’s like sticking your head in a fucking garbage can…….(with that new car smell of course.) If your considering a Prius, go for the base model and skip the extras. Thats where you’ll get burned…

This list is definitely the stuffwhiteliberalslike I have a Mustang GT and a Ducati…

Ha, ha!

Although one guy up there made a comment about having a Mustang GT…and a Ducati.

The Mustang GT should be somewhere on the list, seriously.

I have one. I love it. I am a total cracker and I admit it, and even if I didn’t admit it my Mustang shouts it like an effing bullhorn.

Yes, yes. It is sad.

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I love how this website generally paints being a liberal hippie as a predominantly white activity. I don’t even have to explain how assbackwards that is.

Better than Guitar Hero….
My new Prius is awesome.

But the best is watching the Energy screen and learning how to drive it so you’re getting the 99.9 mpg show as much as possible. Told my daughter this was the best hands-on “video” game I’ve played since Guitar Hero. Even better, I get cash-back rewards for winning the game. yeah baby.

I don’t own a car anymore (14 months and counting)but ride my bike or take the bus or bum a ride.
How d’ya like THEM APPLES?

p.s.- I have a lot more money now for hookers and cocaine!

Uhhh…anyone ever heard of diesel? (I wouldn’t know if you did, because I am too self centered to read the other posts)

Anyhoo, my ole Diesel Merc gets over 35mph (that’s an S-class bitches…which means it’s a tank) oh, and BTW I can run off veg oil. Take that Prius!

Hell, I got ours because I didn’t want to declare bankruptcy to the oil barrons.
95% of all the taxis in this town are prius and the drivers aren’t usually white for what ever that matters.

Like expensive sandwiches, can’t afford this either.

I just bought a prius and I love it. The quasi-racist who wrote this article fails to recognize that a lot of us regardless of race, are concerned about reducing our expenses.

It is past time for Americans to dump their big SUV’s and trucks and start being more responsible. How many times have you seen a big Ford F150 or an Escalade or a Yukon lumber around in traffic with only one person inside, the driver? Although I’m not ready to ride my bike to work, etc., if each one of us can reduce the amount of gas we consume every day, including diesel, we might just be able to bring down the high price of gasoline.

A friend of mine recently told me (and I haven’t actually seen this study, so he may have just been blowing smoke) that he read a study by the University of Michigan that did a dust-to-dust analysis of the Prius and the Hummer H3, and the energy cost of manufacture, transport to user location (I guess since the Prius has to cross the ocean), and de-manufacture/junking made the Prius’ carbon footprint three times the size of the Hummer. He said that both cars were analyzed to 200,000 miles of driving, and the actual driving was the only section of the analysis in which the Prius bested the Hummer. I guess the ‘yota has a lot of electrical and battery components that are pretty difficult to get rid of. And I can attest to the fact that a major problem with the soils around landfills is presented by battery leakages.

Again, I can’t speak to the veracity of this study (or if it even exists) since a friend just mentioned it, but it is something to think about. Personally, I’ve always kind of chuckled at the notion that a car with better gas mileage is really doing something for the global greenhouse gas situation. The solution to the emissions problem is going to be driving less.

Prius owners and white people have no need to offer a rationale. Stop it now.

First of all, we’re not “White”. We are European Americans. Don’t devalue your cultural identity by referring to yourselves using “quasi-racist” terms like “White”. We have a wonderful cultural heritage that needs to be preserved, or it will be lost.

Second, we have a serious energy (oil) and environmental crisis (carbon dioxide) going on here – and it’s here to stay. Dump the SUV and go with the Prius, for your kid’s sake.

Third, it’s sad, frustrating and angering that no US auto maker has even attempted a car like the Prius, other than a few “me-too” hybrid fakes.